Apparently the flight was going to go through, or to either Eilson or Elmendorf. The reports are saying now they were heading to Alaska. No word on
whether they were going for an exercise, or if they were swapping aircraft out, or how many others were in the cell with the mishap aircraft. I'm
still looking for info on a tail number. I have the unit, but no tail number has been given out yet that I've found.

What's really fun is reading all the articles, trying to piece details together. I've so far found one article that had a picture of an actual F-16,
only it was an Israeli F-16I. And another article had a great picture, too bad it was a Typhoon...

No. They only fly armed when they're on alert or a live fire exercise. The fighters in Japan don't stand alert, as the Japanese have a perfectly
capable fighter fleet, and live fire exercises are usually held in the US, not Japan.

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